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Windows 10 rolled out their anniversary update edition on August 2nd .You don’t have to do anything to get the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, it will roll out automatically to you through Windows Update if you’ve chosen to have updates installed automatically on your device starting with newer PC’s.

There are many tips and tricks to be discovered the more we use this operating system. There is still one annoyance for me on my personal PC at home.

Wouldn’t you like to log into your Windows account at home with out a password? It can be done.

First, log into your Windows 10 user account as you normally do by entering your password at the login screen. Next, click Start (or tap the Windows Key on your keyboard) and type netplwiz. The “netplwiz” command will appear as a search result in the Start Menu search. Hit Enter on your keyboard or click on the result to open it.

A new window labeled “User Accounts” will appear, listing all user accounts on the PC. Click on your user account to select it and uncheck the box labeled “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.”

You’ll be prompted to enter the user account’s password (this is a safeguard to ensure that other users on the PC can’t change the settings for accounts they don’t have access to). Enter your account’s password and then click OK to close the window.

Finally, test the new setting by saving all open work and rebooting your PC. If all steps above were performed correctly, Windows 10 should bypass the login screen and load directly into your user account without prompting you for the account’s password.

This and lot more tips and tricks will be available in class called Windows 10; Ask the Expert. Come and meet Rod our local guru in all things Windows 10. And bring your questions…Win10 seminar

Note

Our IT Tech made a very concise summary for the upgrade. Do you want to install on top of an existing version “dirty” version or do you want to start from scratch or “clean install”. Check our Carl Pingry’s findings. Thanks for the info.

Doing a free clean upgrade on an eligible system can be done two ways:

1. Do a clean reinstall of the current system and then run the free Win 10 upgrade.

2. Run the free Win 10 upgrade on the current dirty system then do a reinstall from media of a clean Win 10.

I think #2 is preferable because one doesn’t have to be concerned with finding media, keys, drivers and possible updates for the old system.

Also one might want to run the “dirty” Win 10 for a while to see if the upgrade cleaned up a significant number of the old problems before going through the onerous task of reinstalling your applications.

Join us on Aug. 27th at 10 am to see the new features on Windows 10. I can tell you the browser is blazing fast and Cortana is pretty fun to work with. www.agecomputer.org